New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-09
TRUE ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE.
MEANING OF IT'S DIVINE INSTITUTION.

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PROTOTYPE OF ALL SIMILAR RELArioNs' A..
Marriage; Its Divine Origin" was the sun)ect Oh 'no
Rev q g. Seward, in the New Jerusalem Churcn :" -
Thirty yesterday morning The speaker 'oA ~.
bis text Matt XIX and g. "He that made them N 'no
heoiunIne made them male and female" etc. ana an
nounced as his subject the Divine origin OF marraeo
After referring TO the holiness sanctty ana universal
character Of marriage, and showing from euo'@ A.,
from the Sacred Scriptures that It was W
Lord he showed that marriage Is OF Dvine
merely because the Lord instituted IL Al 'He ''s'
but because It is from Him. He said; az,
This IA evident from the Divine nature Inc torm tbsr
ITSELF Al things from H% Ssse is no other being
from whom any a s
nature re- pgSn wsSn Of n III,
oSy nc hs G sns ssS saa he
that He For this It may e Os truly The Lord
gu{ this truth s not merely inerential T., ,na lord
The b9 9as s az ersa rns that there
Him Of love and wIsao% or gooads eSs anu itself Man
h ho. love and wisdom in Him they are finite linn
tied and derived Ss ns hH5 and or nom
self Bp a. in %a1 all e ans @ thus Of
united action marriage Of both so In the Lora AZ % i n
finite love His infinite wsdomlnhnte love oeInS Ens
SSTs Te P T wR oRey acton t rodne il
nte marriage of love and wisdom in tho Lord hat an ,%fs
out nythng made that was made These tnng ~
were not made pS S Ss marra9 or Union Of
a. man acts from union marriage OF will or understand
ing and not from either separately Butt Is hos on bin@s
IL Ia from II also that they are ~
existence moment TO moment; so that tnat %
verse would be with It, From this we see III th
infinite marriage only the prototype put since ~
first and highest marriage the origin or Az es5cr Sn ~
marriages that OF the marriage oil one man WIZ" o"0
We find this infinite marriage OF love and wisdom In inc
Lord reflected IN all see around u.s. Its ne Chrrcb
gS ssS e 1
HOLY and Intimate relation between the Church ana us
IIaada nd Maste /
bride wife, IL from IL that me Chnrch in
life power. The truly she IL chuIcn ond
matey is united with the Ior'i-the more g, ~ i'm
resplendent she But II she falls away from
no longer seeks do His VIII ana permits ber ano a.
on for Him to grow Enthusiastically her aleHsnce 20
rendered 10 other coda Huher glory Is turned no
shame and her beauty 10 ashes A.. ...r-,a1a ~
Rut there are other copies OF me maraso
49,, trd nd tbe Church We In the marriage OF gool
and truth In human mind and In the worn sc no
the union heat and light IN the sum IN the ais
riapes of men and women the loves OF bris ana ahs
m The dual nature and plants and even IN INC
attraction that exists between the clements OF ani
Everywhere. both in the realms ai things
and because all things must pear pear. romais
Image ana superscrpton we sec more o, &C.,
RACES proceed aud is therefore the prototype anu
/ origin OF them all. $780,. III t,s hol,nass its
IL is from this derives AL It's h0nness
sanctty s benevolent purpose and results anu M a
eysteoe IL holy not only because the Iord insltun
I'm The begnnng but IL Is from Him IN hrst ptins
MES IL il sacred He has joined IL togetho ~
ansa God hath Joined together man NAV not
asnnder benehcent because WHAT the h - nvin,
shed for Himself must carry Win ~ as atva III 4
pSri beoIse IL derived from Him who nnhlve sb'
eternal because II merely natural out v
because what spiritual is eternal ana The Inns Of M
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